Rocking blotting paper holder



Quit, RS, 1935. v. e. GRANHOLM ROCKING BLOTTING PAPER HOLDER Filed Nov. 25, 1954 m Who/m Patented Got. 15, 1935 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 4 Claims.

The heretofore known rocking blotting-paper holders which are provided with turns of blotting paper Wound thereon, present the disadvantage that in consequence of their very closely fitting arrangement, they cannot be exchanged after the using up of the blotting paper, so that rocking blotting-paper holders in use cannot any longer be used with a new supply of blotting paper. Moreover the known rocking blotting-paper holders take up much room and they are consequently very inconvenient in transport.

There are, indeed, known rocking blotting-paper holders which are composed of two pieces of pasteboard but are so elastic that they require the use of lateral stiffening insertions.

Now these disadvantages are avoided by the rocking blotting-paper holder according to the invention which differs from those known in that it consists of two or more segments of a circular, egg-shaped, or approximately egg-shaped cylinder, so that these segments can during transport be placed one in another and consequently take up very little room, whilst the insertion of the already existing rocking blottingpaper holder into a new known blotting-paper supply can be very easily effected in consequence of the hereinbefore mentioned divisibility of the rocking blotting-paper holder.

The rocking blotting-paper holder according to the invention is illustrated by way of example in the accompanying drawing, of which:-

Figure 1 is a diagrammatic view of a rocking blotting-paper holder consisting of two segments;

Figure 2 is a side view thereof, and Figure 3 digrammatic part views of the two segments of the rocking blotting-paper holder according to Figure 1; whilst Figure 4 represents a modified constructional form of the rocking blotting-paper holder consisting of four segments according to Figure 1;

and

Figures 5 to 9 represent in plan various modes of connection of the rocking blotting-paper holder segments.

The rocking blotting-paper holder represented in Figure 1 consists of two segments l and 2 the ends of which are sloped, the surface of contact of the ends of these two segments I and 2 being provided with a projection or a recess the object of which is to produce a better connection of these segments after their insertion into the known blotting-paper supply. Figure 3 shows plainly the segments l and 2 of the rocking blotting-paper holder according to Figure 1.

As may be seen clearly from Figure 2, the ends of the segments I and 2 are inclined to the horizontal plane I-I, so that their contact surfaces are oblique to this horizontal plane.

In Figure 4 there is represented a modified con- 5 structional form of the rocking blotting-paper holder according to Figures 1 and 2 that differs from that above described in that the rocking blotting-paper holder consists of four segments I, l' and 2, 2' which are removably connected 10 together at their ends 6 and 1 in a manner similar to that of the rocking blotting-paper holder according to Figures 1 to 3 and at 8 and 9 along a line of desired form.

Figures 5 to 8 are plans of various joint forms 15 of the rocking blotting-paper holder according to Figure 4.

The rocking blotting-paper holder according to Figure 9 is bipartite similarly to that according to Figures 1 to 3 with the single difference 20 that the segments l and l' are further connected together longitudinally of the rocking blottingpaper holder.

The rocking blotting-paper holder according to the invention may be made of any desired stiff 25 material-for example, of artificial resin, rubber, celluloid, paper, metal, woodand also of stiff pasteboard.

Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention, and in 30 what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is:-

1. A rocking blotting-paper holder characterized by the feature that it consists of two or more segments of a circular, egg-shaped, or approxi- 35 mately egg-shaped cylinder which are made of stifl material and are removably connected together.

2. A rocking blotting-paper holder according to claim 1, characterized by the feature that the 40 surface of contact of two adjacent segments is oblique to the horizontal plane.

3. A rocking blotting-paper holder according to claim 1, characterized by the feature that the contact surface of the adjacent segments has one 45 projection or one recess that facilitate the interchangeable connection of these segments.

4. A rocking blotting-paper holder according to claim 1, characterized by the feature that the butt joint between two coadjacent ends of the 50 rocking blotting-paper holder, which consists of more than two parts, extends along a bent or curved line.

VERA GUNHILD GRANHOLM. 

